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Herbert Luft papers

Document | Accession Number: 1991.159 | RG Number: RG-10.028.01

Includes various documents written by Herbert Luft. Among the documents are stories of life in concentration camps and shortwave radio transcripts of broadcasts conducted by Herbert Luft in 1942. The broadcast messages target the German people and give praise to the American government and military for their aid to the people of Europe. The broadcasts were recorded by the US Department of Agriculture, Division of Information, for Shortwave Broadcast of the O.W.I. to Europe. A later accretion to the papers includes a photograph of Herbert Luft and a letter written inside Birkenau concentration camp by a woman who witnessed the birth of a child in the camp.

The materials are a part of a larger collection that was created by Herbert Luft and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via the Collections Department. After accessioning, these documents were removed and transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on 5 Sept. 1991 by Michele Wehrwein of the Collections Department. As part of a unification project, the remaining contents of the collection that were in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Art and Artifacts Branch were transferred to the Archives in 2005.

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